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4:00 PM.Internationally seasoned chef Peter Gordon is helping out small producers in Aotearoa and the Pacific with his 'food embassy' project Homeland. He talks us through his favourite songs on The Mixtape.

3:00 PM.Poneke Musician Michael James Keane walking us through the songs from his latest album - Wandering Bull  Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.Songs about death, drinking, friendship and happiness collide on the recent album Bloom from Auckland band DIRT. The 2021 album - a tribute to the band's singer Malcolm Black who died of cancer in… Read more Video, Audio

5:30 PM.The legendary frontman of Blam Blam Blam, Front Lawn and Mutton Birds, and APRA Silver Scroll Award winner Don McGlashan has released his much anticipated new album, Bright November Morning Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.Fashion designer Karen Walker picks her favourite songs on The Mixtape this week. 

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3:30 PM.If you are a fan of TEAM DYNAMITE, you might like this. Lucky Lance, one of the trio has released an EP with Christoph El Truento. Here is is Lucky Lance introducing his new single - Always Sunny In… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.In this episode of Musical Chairs, BROODS' Caleb and Georgia Nott reflect on their rollercoaster ride in the pop music machine. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Tony Stamp reacts to the latest record in Spoon's thirty year rock career, the debut album by Manurewa rapper Deadforest, and a country-adjacent collection from Nashville's Erin Rae. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.This week's mixtape selector is Chris Bourke, Audioculture editor and presenter of New Zealand music history series Blue Smoke. He shares the songs that have shaped him and speaks with Yadana Saw Read more Audio

3:30 PM.This week we introduce you to Rewind Fields. Read more Video, Audio

3:30 PM.Mild Orange are currently on tour in the US, and have just released their third album Looking for Space. Mehrt, Josh, Tom and Jack tear apart the four walls that defined their unique bedroom pop… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Tony Stamp reviews a blockbuster concept album by Canadian pop star The Weeknd, smooth songs with spiky lyrics from Tāmaki Makaurau/ Maungaturoto songwriter Erny Belle, and the return of mid-2000s… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Grammy award winner Leon Bridges only started his music career 9 years ago - and flew into fame very quickly.

He released his solo album GOLD DIGGING SOUNDS last year which has earned him another… Read more Video, Audio

4:00 PM.Lula Cucchiara is a takatapui photographer and film director whose diverse portfolio includes some of our top fashion houses, magazines and musicians - including Ladyhawke, who she worked with on her… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.Tony Stamp treats his ears to a trend-bucking second album by UK whizz-kids Black Country, New Road; the solo debut of Supergroove frontman and award-winning screen composer Karl Steven; and a… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.We announce the finalists of Te KaIpuoro Taketake Toa Best Folk Artist 2022.

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4:00 PM.This week on The Mixtape Charlotte Ryan talks to Warren Maxwell, frontman of Trinity Roots, Little Bushmen and even did a stint in Fat Freddy Drop.

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Warren Maxwell has made a… Read more Audio

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This week we introduce you to Erny Belle and her new single 'Hell Hole' which will be released on her debut album 'Venus Is Home' Out on the 11th February 2022. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Tony Stamp absorbs a record about caring by American soul maestro Curtis Harding, a drip-fed double album by dream-pop luminaries Beach House, and the latest high energy outing from local hip-hop… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Yola is a Bristol-born, Nashville based musician and singer who blurs the boundaries between soul, country, and disco, and is earning high praise for it – her second album Stand For Myself, produced… Read more Video, Audio

1:15 PM.Love them or loathe them, the English band UB40 are deeply entwined into Aotearoa's musical DNA. Yadana Saw explores how a reggae-pop band from the British West Midlands burrowed into the South… Read more Video, Audio

5:20 PM.FORENZICS is the new musical project by Tim Finn and Eddie - and they are reworking parts of early Split Enz songs. Charlotte Ryan talks to Tim about the new album and first asks him how he… Read more Audio

4:00 PM.Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa) is the host of RNZ's new magazine-style show Māpuna, which launches on 5 February. The acclaimed broadcaster chats to Yadana Saw about some of the songs that have… Read more Video, Audio